Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology

1. The ideas of Chinese dialect classification1.1. Introduction1.2. Dialects and the Chinese idea of dialect1.3. Goals and methods in classification and comparison1.4. The primacy of data and the cultivation of data1.5. Reconstruction1.6. Under-description and the need for correspondence sets1.7. Rigor in classification - reinventing the wheel1.8. Bundling of features1.9. Beentzhyh and meaningful elicitation1.10. To recapitulate
2. Wann'an and the problem of this study2.1. Wann'an township2.2. The meaning of the names "Hakka" and "Miin"2.3. The settlement of Wann'an, its geography, and local trades2.4. Major sites2.5. Markets and roads2.6. The problem of this study: Norman's diagnostic rules2.7. Common Miin initial-types2.8. The "Shawwuu Hypothesis"
3. Wann'an's affiliation and the cohesiveness of diagnostic features3.1. The Hakka test3.2. Comparative Wann'an tones3.3. The Miin test3.4. Is Norman's Hakka criterion an artifact of his sources?3.5. Evidence from rural Liancherng3.6. Hakka in general3.7. Conclusions and prospects for further research on Hakka
4. The character of Wann'an dialects4.1. Other features of Miin4.2. The classification of Wann'an within Miin4.3. Subclassification within Coastal Miin4.4. Conclusion
5. Wann'an evidence about Common Miin5.1. A fourth nasal initial correspondence5.2. Rogue nasalization and evidence of voiceless nasals5.3. The shaang tone glottal stop in Miin5.4. Addendum: chiuhsheng lengthening?
6. Conclusion: The place of Miin in the greater history of Chinese6.1. Introduction6.2. The question of the history of spoken Chinese6.3. Chinese linguistic macro-history6.4. The tonal proto-system of Miin6.5. A digression on the relative date of tone splitting6.6. Miin as a relic of Chinese before massive palatalization6.7. Conclusion and hopes for the future